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chin:
The game is player vs player. The house takes a rake.
It looks to me luck plays a very large part of how likely you can win a hand. But, like you said, posturing & psychology can increase your payoff in the event that you have good cards, i.e. tilting the odds to your side.
q:
--- Quote from: chin on 03 January 2010, 15:10:03 ---It looks to me luck plays a very large part of how likely you can win a hand. But, like you said, posturing & psychology can increase your payoff in the event that you have good cards, i.e. tilting the odds to your side.
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Well regarding the hand a player receives poker is a game of chance, so from the perspective of playing the game without the betting phase the winner is determined by luck.
When betting is introduced to the game, then I think it depends a lot on the rules of the game, and the attitudes/skill level of players. For instance, it may not be advantageous
for a professional poker player to play with a table full of amateurs, since the game may be too chaotic for a "professional strategy" to apply.
chin:
We went to Macau again for Chinese New Year. I met up with a friend there who told me some remarkable stories about playing pokers. I will retell the details later.
First some pictures of this trip. This time we stayed at the Venetian Hotel. It wasn't my first choice but the other hotels like Wynn, MGM Grand were fully booked 6 weeks ahead. Anyway Venetian was having a special event getting this guy to build a very large house of cards, using 3800 decks.
chin:
On 13th Feb, I took these two pictures on the way to Canton for the New Year's Eve dinner.
The light rains make the City of Dreams look a little dreamy. At the door of the casino there the banner says "Luck is here". I am sure it's very true, just that the luck is mostly on the house side.
chin:
One of the main reason for going to Macau again is to play fireworks during Chinese New Year.
One of our favorite firework is this large blue cone that my kids call "Christmas Tree". It starts kind of lame with slow and low sparks but soon grow to strong fierce volcano-like breathing sparks. Most of the stalls would sell this at $80 to $120. But after a few rounds of bargaining, we usually can get it at around $100 for 3, or $40 each.
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